ScarpaStoreTM is an on-line e-commerce catalog and storefront. Modules of ScarpaStore have been deployed for quite a few of our clients. A list of some of these clients can be seen here. Customizable to suit a client's needs, a ScarpaStore^TM can consist of one or many modules such as:

Inventory Management
The Inventory Management modules gives online retailers the ability to manage quantities of goods. This will ensure that you are not promising products out that you may not be able to deliver.

On-Line Purchasing / Shopping Cart
The shopping cart is likely the most important part of trying to sell products online. It allows customers to be able to purchase multiple products and can even be remembered the next time they come to the store.

Product Reviews
Customer-Entered Product Reviews have been demonstrated to help buyers decide on products and gives them confidence that products and services are trustworthy and perform as indicated. The administrator has the ability to edit / approve content if desired.

Cross-Selling
Cross-selling is the linking of multiple products. You can do this in multiple ways:

• You can tie complementary products together so that each product contains information to attract the shopper to the complementary product. An example of this would be linking tennis shoes and athletic socks together.
• You can give the shopper "Also Bought" information. This analyzes historical buying trends and links them to other products that have been placed on orders that contain that product.

Specials and Discount Management
This module allows you to offer more than one price for a particular product. It allows the administrator to set up various pricing models:

• Timed Sales Pricing - This model allows you to put a date range around a special price. This would allow you to ensure that christmas ornaments automatically go on sale December 15th.
• Quantity Discounts - Quantity discounts allows the system to lower the price of items when a buyer buys a certain number of the products.
• Coupon Management - Allows a store to provide shoppers a discount code that they can enter on checkout to receive a discount on product cost, free/discounted shipping, or free products.

Buyer Accounts and Types
This module gives a store the flexibility to manage more than one kind of online buyer. This module could be used by a manufacturer to sell to both consumers and retailers, with retailers getting different prices and needing to meet certain requirements such as order cost or product case quantity. The module will also provide for a different business processes for the various account types.

Integrated Shipping Calculations
Allows the administrator to determine shipping prices for orders. It can support regular rates as well as discounted rates. It can allow the shopper to select from multiple shipping vendors and/or methods, and it gives the retailer the opportunity to markup shipping using a handling charge if desired.

Credit Card Processing
ScarpaStore is tightly intergrated with online-credit card authorization programs such as Authorize.net. We can get online, real-time authorizations at various levels, including with or without Address Verification and Card Identification Numbers. We have also integrated with several IP geolocation services that help prevent credit card fraud by verifying the physical location of the buyer with the billing and shipping information.

On-line Reporting
All of the functionality in the world is worthless if you don't have a way to find out what is happening. Our on-line reports module gives you information on customers, orders, products, site visits, and other information that help to ensure and measure the success of your online operation.

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